According to the results of 2007 pollution and emission decreasing issued by Ministry of National Environment Protection, National Development and Reform Commission, Statistics Bureau and Ministry of Supervision, the emission of COD and SO2 in Jiangsu in 2007 decreased by 4.9% and 8.0% respectively from those of 2006, which means Jiangsu Province has overfulfiled the target set by center government for the second time in two years in line.

    According to Zhu Tiejun, an official from provincial bureau for environment protection, the target for 2008 in Jiangsu is control the emission of SO2 under 1.1685 million tons, down 4.1% from that of 2007; that of COD under 862,100 tons, down 3.3%, which is hard to realize.

    Take the first half for example, the emission of COD increased by 33,300 tons and that of SO2 increased by 53,900 tons. Therefore, it is hard to absorb the increases while realize the target for decreasing.

    Therefore, the province takes a series of measures to secure the target, including the followings.

    Adjust the production structure and demolish the outdated capacities. During the first half, Jiangsu Province closed and demolished outdated iron and steel capacities 3.262 million tons.

    Stricter the standard for new projects. Till now, three development zones and two counties in Jiangsu Province has stopped giving approvals to new projects which will add new pollutions.